The Forgotten Princess & her Beta Mates novel Chapter 21

Smells Fishy

Dallas‘ p.o.v.

After everyone has left Preston’s office, Joshua and Jesper sit down next to me on the couch and I press play on the footage on the screen.

The three of us are staring at the screen, a young female is sitting in a chair near the desk and her head is hanging low. We listen to her story as she tells it to the former Alpha and former Gamma, replaying it again to look at her body language and again to look and listen for anything we might have missed the other two times.

After going through the footage two more times, I send Joshua out to the living room to get Alpha Preston.

“Alpha, can you tell me why Daxton stayed home?” I ask him, after he has sat down in an armchair.

“It was his turn to stay behind. Darius, Daxton and Rayden took turns staying behind when I had to visit other Packs, I wasn’t the Alpha yet and we wanted to stay in the loop on what happened here during our absence.” Preston answers me.

It made sense to me that Preston wanted to know how the Pack was doing at all times and leaving a member of the future leadership behind would make that possible.

“Was Darius alone when he woke up Daxton?” Jesper asks and Preston shakes his head.

“No, Rayden and I were with him. We wanted to tell Daxton that none of us had found a connection, but walking into the room that morning was weird.” Preston answers.

“Darius stayed in the room by the door to the landing, it is the only room that isn’t soundproof and they stay there for a reason. If anyone wanted to enter the Alpha floor, they would be woken up the moment the door opened. It was a precaution one of my ancestors put in place, but no one outside this Pack’s leadership knows about it.

The strange thing was the scent in the room, it made me a bit nauseous. I never smelled something like it before and never again after that day.” Preston states and I ask him to describe the scent.

“Almost like walking into a room that is filled with cotton candy, it was too much of a sweet scent.” He answers.

“Did anyone see Sage that morning or on any other day before she left?” I ask Preston, but he has to tell me that no one saw her again.

Joshua guides him out of the office and when Rayden sits down, he gets the same questions

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and his answers are basically the same. He describes the smell in the room as sticking your head in a yar filled with pink marshmallows with a sugarcoat.

Darius gives me similar answers to my questions and his analogy of the sweet scent in the room is a mix of Preston and Rayden’s answers.

Daxton doesn’t remember anything from that night and he was too groggy when he woke up to remember how the room smelled. All he could remember from that morning was the splitting headache he had and that Cyran had been absent, probably fast asleep in the back of his head.

Neither one of them could actually remember if Cyran had been asleep or not, but it didn’t make much difference in this case.

Pearl walks into the office, once I am done with all my questions and she sits down on the coffee table in front of me.

“Dallas, do you have any idea what happened?” Pearl asks.

“No, but something doesn’t feel right about this. I have a few more questions that these guys can’t answer and hopefully, I will have an answer by the time I do find those answers.” I answer Luna Pearl.

With this interruption, we missed dinner in the main dining room and we settled for a few pizzas.

“Captain, there is an issue down here.” One of my Squad members links me. “Daniella is telling everyone that she is Daxton’s chosen Mate and Madeline is backing her up.”

“Alpha, do you mind if I put some Pack–members back in their place?” I ask, but I don’t wait for an answer and I can hear them walking down the stairs behind me.

I am on the last flight of stairs, when I can hear a commotion coming from the main living room and I speed up just a little.

“Daxton is my chosen Mate and I suggest that you all stay away from him.” I hear Daniella say. “If I find anyone of you near him, I will throw you in the dungeons.”

I look over my shoulders at Alpha Preston and he mouths “Go ahead” before I turn my back on him.

“Daniella, Daxton isn’t your chosen Mate. Luna Pearl told me that you have been trying for almost a decade now to get him to choose you and every time he has told you that he will wait for his connection. Is there something in that sentence that you don’t understand?” I ask. “My Son will choose Daniella as his Mate, because he will never find his connection.”

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